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Senior research engineer ๐Ÿงช in cybersecurity, author about ML in JS, and creative technologist. Making weird things in JavaScript (mostly) https://charliegerard.dev
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Always love to watch Tobi (@baldower) make music live using samples from the previous speaker's talk! He's so good!

I love speaking at creative conferences but boy do I feel like an amateur next to the other amazing speakers ๐Ÿ˜… Feeling very inspired by all the talks! bump-festival.be/2025/

I've been following Yehwan Song's work for a while so I'm so excited to see her speak live! Her projects are so awesome! yhsong.com

Super excited to speak at Bump Festival today in Kortrijk, Belgium! ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช I love the mix of art & tech talks! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

This is a really good example of the importance of friction as texture: an algorithm-driven interface is slippery smooth, with no natural point of interruption. It feels frictionless because it is making decisions for you. But as soon as you *want* to make your own decisions, the friction appears.

I'm at this bar/restaurant, catching up on work and I can't help but hear the people at the table in front of me who seem to be on a first date and they're really vibing talking about life, politics, etc, they're so cute, it's giving me hope that dating does work out for some people.

Went for a run this morning on 4h sleep cause of jetlag and thought I was gonna struggle to do my usual 5k but turns out I ran 6k!๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Longest distance ever! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I'm training to go slower to last longer and my new goal is to run my first 10k at the SF marathon at the end of July!

Made it to Amsterdam for @jsnation.gitnation.org this week! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

What if you could control a website with a wave of your hand? ๐Ÿ‘‹ Charlie Gerard (@devdevcharlie.comโ€ฌ) is coming to #CascadiaJS to take us through her research on building motion-controlled prototypes using LLMs in JavaScript. #JavaScript #MotionControl #LLMs #MultimodalAI More info โฌ‡๏ธ

I love this by @robbowen.digital: robbowen.digital/wrote-about/... "Where industry peers were once chatting about what they were making and for whom, we now seem fixated solely on what we're building with."

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ›ซ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Thanks again @futurefrontend.bsky.social for having me! I had a great time meeting really nice people ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

I went to visit the Museum of Malware Art in Helsinki today! It's really cool to see an exhibition mixing art and technology to demystify cyber threats. Loved the Virus Archive visualizing famous malware and the interactive installation with gesture recognition!

Running a little interactive art installation with motion control using Tensorflow.js at the conference on a very old laptop so it's a bit laggy but I'm surprised it works anyway!! Actually curious to see if it runs all day without crashing.

I prepared 6 demos for my talk today so I'm definitely gonna challenge the demo gods ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Let's hope I win ๐Ÿ˜…

I love adding live demos to my talks but it's always quite an adventure! The talk I'm giving tomorrow is a new one and is demo based so of course I just realized nothing might work cause of some wifi configs I might not have control over ๐Ÿ˜…. Scrambling a back up plan right now...๐Ÿคž๐Ÿป

I'm in Finland for a conference and didn't realize how close it was to Estonia so here I am, taking the 2h "ferry" (more like a mini cruise boat ๐Ÿ›ณ๏ธ) to Tallinn to spend a few hours with a friend I haven't seen in a few years ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Feeling very grateful ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

Little Sunday tinkering to test one of my demos for my talk about motion control with multimodal AI that I'll give at @futurefrontend.bsky.social and @jsnation.gitnation.org in the next few weeks! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I'm really excited to share everything I learned researching this! ๐Ÿงช

Just realized BSides SF is live streaming all the talks today! youtube.com/@bsidessf?si...

Spent 2 hours writing, 4 hours editing, and 2 days spiraling about whether anyone would care. finally hit publish anyway. ashley.dev/posts/fear-o...

This article explaining a critical vulnerability in MCP tools is really interesting! Makes me want to experiment with a few things... invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-sec...

Been talking to a few people recently who want to write but are already putting themselves under immense pressure to "write perfectly"* It's about time I unearthed this again bell.bz/just-post/ * I wouldn't know what a perfect article looked like tbh

โš ๏ธ Periodic reminder to be careful with what you install on your machine โš ๏ธ I spent some time recreating a new cybersecurity attack via Chrome extension that can steal your credentials; itโ€™s quite sneaky and super easy to build. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ charliegerard.dev/blog/polymor...

Procrastinating on a side project I have to finish for a talk by building another, less pressing, new side project ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

๐Ÿ“You should know this before choosing Next.js eduardoboucas.com/posts/2025-0...

Welcome to a new week in 2025. Pages for #btconf Berlin with first speakers and tickets are online. Find everything here and stay tuned for more! beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli... #berlin #event #conference #festival #beyondtellerrand #speakers #design #webdesign #frontend #community

The atmosphere at this marathon is so wholesome. People who don't know anything about each other just cheering each other up ๐Ÿฅน. It shouldn't feel so rare but it kinda is and it feels really good.

I DID IT!! ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ…๐ŸŽ‰ Omg I'm not sure I'm made for this but I probably didn't help myself by not having dinner last night and no breakfast either ๐Ÿ˜… I didn't beat the record I had set myself but honestly I'm super happy I even finished it!

Today is the day!! I'm running my first race at the Oakland marathon! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ I'm not feeling super confident about it even if it's only the 5k race ๐Ÿ˜ฌ but we'll see!

I'm not a proper tech creator but even for me, it takes so much time to research and build innovative projects + write blog posts about it that I can't do it as much as I used to. I also prefer writing than recording videos and I don't know if people even read blog posts anymore... ๐Ÿ˜ข

The new issue of The HTML Review is here! Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium. The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby thehtml.review/04/